nobility是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 高贵, 高尚; 贵族，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 176 A tale of two cities 'I must do, to live, what others of my countrymen, even with nobility at their backs, may have to do some day-work.'
-- Such masters were not at that time easily found; Princes that had been, and Kings that were to be, were not yet of the Teacher class, and no ruined nobility had dropped out of Tellson's ledgers, to turn cooks and carpenters.
-- That he had watched the times for a time of action, and that they had shifted and struggled until the time had gone by, and the nobility were trooping from France by ev-ery highway and byway, and their property was in course of confiscation and destruction, and their very names were blotting out, was as well known to himself as it could be to any new authority in France that might impeach him for it.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You'll say again that I'm a reactionist, or some other terrible word; but all the same it does annoy and anger me to see on all sides the impoverishing of the nobility to which I belong, and, in spite of the amalgamation of classes, I'm glad to belong.
-- At the same time as the traveler there was announced a provincial marshal of nobility on a visit to Petersburg, with whom Alexey Alexandrovitch had to have some conversation.
-- He looked more robust, had let his whiskers grow, but was still the same graceful creature, whose face and figure were even more striking from their softness and nobility than their beauty.
-- He despised the nobility, and believed the mass of the nobility to be secretly in favor of serfdom, and only concealing their views from cowardice.
-- The district marshals of nobility were all occupied with the elections, and it was impossible to get the simplest thing done that depended upon the court of wardship.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In poverty you may still re-tain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary never no one.
-- The same morning without any delay, she went round to all the houses in the town and ev-erywhere, shedding tears, she asserted in the most flattering terms Dounia's innocence and the nobility of her feelings and her behavior.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She proved to be the daughter of a tradesman, rich enough to afford her the comfortable main-tenance which had ever been hers, and decent enough to have always wished for concealment. Such was the blood of gentility which Emma had formerly been so ready to vouch for! It was likely to be as untainted, perhaps, as the blood of many a gentleman: but what a connexion had she been preparing for Mr. Knightley or for the Churchills or even for Mr. Elton! The stain of illegitimacy, unbleached by nobility or wealth, would have been a stain indeed.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah!such a blessing it is to be high-born; nobility of blood will shine out even in the ranks and files.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was almost like a patent of nobility to be admitted to those gilded salons; he had appeared in the most exclusive circle in Paris, and now all doors were open for him.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was no servant so stupid that she did not find some redeeming trait ofloyalty and kind-heartedness, no girl so ugly and disagreeable that she could not discover grace of form or nobility ofcharacter in her, and no man so worthless or so boring that she did not view him in the light of his possibilities ratherthan his actualities.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Trabb then bent over number four, and in a sort of deferential confidence recommended it to me as a light article for summer wear, an article much in vogue among the nobility and gentry, an article that it would ever be an honor to him to reflect upon a distinguished fellow-townsman's (if he might claim me for a fellow-townsman) having worn.
-- The whole of the Danish nobility were in attendance; consisting of a noble boy in the wash-leather boots of a gigantic ancestor, a venerable Peer with a dirty face who seemed to have risen from the people late in life, and the Danish chivalry with a comb in its hair and a pair of white silk legs, and presenting on the whole a feminine appearance.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was likewise ordered, that three hundred tailors should make 30 Gulliver's Travelsme a suit of clothes, after the fashion of the country; that six of his majesty's greatest scholars should be employed to instruct me in their language; and lastly, that the emper-or's horses, and those of the nobility and troops of guards, should be frequently exercised in my sight, to accustom themselves to me.
-- 37Chapter III The author diverts the emperor, and his nobility of both sexes, in a very uncommon manner.
-- And it must be confessed, that from the great intercourse of trade and commerce between both realms, from the continual reception of exiles which is mutual among them, and from the custom, in each empire, to send 60 Gulliver's Travelstheir young nobility and richer gentry to the other, in order to polish themselves by seeing the world, and understand-ing men and manners; there are few persons of distinction, or merchants, or seamen, who dwell in the maritime parts, but what can hold conversation in both tongues; as I found some weeks after, when I went to pay my respects to the em-peror of Blefuscu, which, in the midst of great misfortunes, through the malice of my enemies, proved a very happy ad-venture to me, as I shall relate in its proper place.
-- He observed, 'that among the diversions of our nobility and gentry, I had mentioned gaming: he desired to know at what age this entertainment was usually taken up, and when it was laid down; how much of their time it employed; whether it ever went so high as to affect their fortunes; whether mean, vicious people, by their dexterity in that art, might not arrive at great riches, and sometimes keep our very nobles in dependence, as well as habituate them to vile companions, wholly take them from the improvement of their minds, and force them, by the losses they received, to learn and practise that infamous dexterity upon others?'
-- As to their military affairs, they boast that the king's army consists of a hundred and seventy-six thousand foot, and thirty-two thousand horse: if that may be called an army, which is made up of tradesmen in the several cities, and farmers in the country, whose commanders are only the nobility and gentry, without pay or reward.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- While Nickits (as a man came into my office, and told me yesterday), Nickits, who used to act in Latin, in the Westminster School plays, with the chief-justices and nobility of this country applauding him till they were black in the face, is drivelling at this minute drivelling, sir! in a fifth floor, up a narrow dark back street in Antwerp.'
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But even the satisfaction of talking with a distant connec-tion of the British nobility did not render Amy forgetful of time, and when the proper number of minutes had passed, she reluctantly tore herself from this aristocratic society, and looked about for Jo, fervently hoping that her incorri-gible sister would not be found in any position which should bring disgrace upon the name of March.
-- The scientific celebrities, forgetting their mollusks and glacial periods, gossiped about art, while devoting themselves to oysters and ices with characteristic energy; the young musician, who was charming the city like a second Orpheus, talked horses; and the specimen of the British nobility present happened to be the most ordinary man of the party.
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